Slush, I finally met the payment threshold 04/23/2011 at 4:27 and got an email saying that it paid out, but no coins are showing up in my Windows Bitcoin client (It is now 25 hrs later and still no coins). I double checked my address and it is correct. The Windows Bitcoin client is showing connections. Is something wrong on your end or mine? If it is on my end, do you have any suggestions?

I don't think so... this is the 3rd day when the server drops at around this same hour. It will pick up in half an hour or so. slush said he will ask the provider what's going on. Hope he finds out.

I was watching today's outage whole time, with another sysadmin. We didn't found anything wrong with application, but internal routing looks corrupted. It is crazy that it is always at the same time and after some time it recover itself. Linode guys are saying that everything works on their side, but I'm now absolutely sure that those issues are related to infrastructure. So I'm forced to change provider, which unfortunately will take some time.

Since it happens in particular time, i am sure some task scheduling or automatic updates like that are setup(windows user, don't know abt linux...), also even antivirus, backup, many things run at predefined specific time. If you just look at task manager what takes more cpu at that time, then u can be 100 % sure where is problem.In my pc lavasoft ad-aware runs many times itself, even though i have no scheduled task & its service takes 25% cpu causing high cpu for 20-30 minutes.If i see, i just kill it. If not it just increases cpu temp.

OK, I made some changes yesterday, so I'm going to watch if it helped; 10.00 UTC is soon. There will be short downtime even if it don't fall itself, because I'll migrate DB (which I didn't want to do yesterday, because of one extra downtime).

I used to get a bitcoin every 4 days from this pool, then every 5, then every 6, now I just don't get any bitcoins ever. Last bitcoin was on 5/10. I'd like to think that averaging 14500khash/s is pretty good, don't you? But no luck.

I used to get a bitcoin every 4 days from this pool, then every 5, then every 6, now I just don't get any bitcoins ever. Last bitcoin was on 5/10. I'd like to think that averaging 14500khash/s is pretty good, don't you? But no luck.

It's not the pool, it's the difficulty. Plugging in that number to the following:

The average is 836 days for a 50 BTC block, of which you'd get 49BTC so you'll need on average 17 days for 1 BTC. Just the way it is, don't know what hardware you run but you probably want to check if you're using more power than it would cost to buy BTC. Some single cards can pull about 50 times higher hash rate than that.

im not putting down slushs pool, It is the best choice for me right now, I have significantly mined on the top pools recently and have been studying this very subject. I love Slush's pool but I tell you I loved it more 100 g/hash ago.

I know that theoretically the round times and the rewards per share should all equal out, I understand that but the reality is because of the luck involved in finding blocks, they just dont.

Its a combination of luck/difficulty and user/speed ratios

DeepBit's average round time is the shortest anywhere, and because of all the competition the rewards are very very small, however they still get nailed with 90 min rounds every now and then... plus the fees kill you

if you go to the smaller guys like BTCMine or BTC Guild you get much bigger rewards per round, but those guys are still seeing 4, 5 hour rounds

in theory yes it all equals out in the end but I have really been studying this to some depth and I really believe there is a sweet spot so to speak, where you have a high enough g/hash range to effectively mine but not too high to make competition for the 50 BTC per round too fierce.

I am actually going to write an article about this and publish my findings, there's a real quantifiable speed/user ratio that does make a difference despite what everyone says about things equaling out.